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is a Denver-based network of aggregated local websites with posts written by thousands of freelancers.

Examiner.com, which was , , often locally based, that are typically made up of aggregated parts from other websites, often building on widely searched-for topics. Its unedited articles are written by .

Examiner.com is a part of the Clarity Digital Group, which is owned by billionaire entrepreneur , who also owns the , and .

Examiner.com was among the web’s fastest-growing news sites in 2009, largely in appearing near the top of Google searches. It now operates in in the United States and Canada.

Examiner.com has for its writers’ , which is , as well as its . Its writers have also been . In April 2011, it responded to that criticism by producing a about its content quality that proposed offering quality-based incentives for writers.

In 2009, Examiner.com , a Vancouver-based global citizen journalism site launched in 2005, . The two outlets separate sites, and NowPublic in early 2010. NowPublic to the Associated Press from 2008 to 2009, before it was purchased by Examiner.com.

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Foursquare is a location-based social network that awards users for “checking-in” to venues in a city on a mobile device. Foursquare was created by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in 2009. Crowley had previously created another geolocation-based social network, Dodgeball, which was acquired by Google in 2005. Google shut down Dodgeball in 2009 and replaced…

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